September 26, 2025

More than 40 people experiencing unsheltered homelessness are indoors and on a pathway to permanent housing

An outreach worker speaks with someone who has been living in an encampment in the San Gabriel Riverbed in Bellflower as part of a Pathway Home encampment resolution on Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2025.

Downey, CA — This week, Los Angeles County’s Pathway Home program brought more than 40 people experiencing homelessness who had been living along the 105 Freeway and the San Gabriel River in the cities of Bellflower, Downey, and Norwalk and into safe interim housing, where they are receiving supportive services and other resources to help them transition out of homelessness and into permanent housing. This latest Pathway Home operation continues the County’s emergency response to resolve encampments and return community areas to their intended use.

“Homelessness is an emergency in Los Angeles County, and we are responding to this crisis with the urgency it needs,” said Supervisor Janice Hahn. “These Pathway Home encampment resolutions take a lot of time and work to complete—especially operations like this one that span multiple cities and jurisdictions—but they are the most effective tool I have seen to get people housed, and keep them housed.”

Pathway Home is an LA County Homeless Initiative-led effort that aims to bring entire encampments inside together using local motels as interim housing. Nearly 2,000 Los Angeles County residents have been brought indoors through Pathway Home, 395 of whom are now permanently housed and no longer experiencing homelessness. Meanwhile, 1,020 RVs have been taken off the streets.

The LA County Homeless Initiative collaborated with the Office of Supervisor Hahn, the City of Bellflower, the City of Downey, and the City of Norwalk to conduct the Pathway Home operation on September 24, 2025.

The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) and the nonprofit service provider PATH were essential to bringing unsheltered residents indoors as they had built trusting relationships with them by providing engagement and support during their unhoused experience.

The Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health, Department of Health Services, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Homeless Outreach Services Team, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Works and Los Angeles County Department of Animal Care and Control were also critical partners in the operation, along with Caltrans.

Pathway Home has been funded primarily through Measure H, a ¼-cent sales tax approved by County voters in 2017 to prevent and address homelessness. Since July 1, 2025, Pathway Home has received funds from Measure A, a ½-cent sales tax approved by voters in November 2024 to replace Measure H.